Masterminx http://www.masterminx.com/ Move along, folks. Nothing to see here. en Copyright 2010 Sun, 05 Sep 2010 16:43:51 -0700 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=3.35 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Innovation Monotheists invented a single god to worship. Then, when they needed to hold something responsible for the bad things that happen to good people, they invented an evil counterpart. Suddenly, there was someone to blame for everything people disliked in life.

We are our god, and we are our adversary. People create these myths to comfort us in our belief that our world should be just as we like it.

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Infernal Stock
Dixon Breaks Loose
Authored by Ronnie Schiller

]]> http://www.masterminx.com/2010/05/buy_my_first_novel_please.htm http://www.masterminx.com/2010/05/buy_my_first_novel_please.htm About Tue, 25 May 2010 23:28:17 -0700 Kak! Kak-kak-kak! This stupid cough is driving me crazy. I even considered--very briefly--breaking down and going to the urgent care for a round of antibiotics. Fuck that.

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I hate this state.

]]> http://www.masterminx.com/2009/10/seasons.htm http://www.masterminx.com/2009/10/seasons.htm Daily Sat, 10 Oct 2009 00:51:21 -0700 Appraisal I never realized what was wrong with me until I saw "I Love You, Man." Peter Klaven's problem is my problem: all through school, I had boyfriends instead of friends. Now, I have no friends. My closest friends are married men--perfect friends, really. There is no sexual tension because my position as not-spouse renders me gender neutral, but the instinctive chivalry and protective posture keeps me from being treated shabbily. It works.

]]> http://www.masterminx.com/2009/10/appraisal.htm http://www.masterminx.com/2009/10/appraisal.htm Daily Tue, 06 Oct 2009 11:52:55 -0700 Flaubert-apy I didn't understand how to describe my relationship problems until I read Madame Bovary. I knew my father's influence had loosened my definition of fidelity and marriage. It's a certainty that it ruined my concept of a woman's worth and left me very cynical about the insitution of marriage.

Madame Bovary's problem was that she could not recognize love in its true form. To her, love had to be romantic and dramatic. There had to be suffering and longing. There had to be flattery and weepy dedications. The madness of need or at least its appearance. That was love to her, and that is what she sought while her husband's constancy and admiration went unnoticed after the courtship ended.

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I want to affix his ex-wife's skull to a train car with a nail gun for having an affair with someone she met online. And for being a total bitch.

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As if the meat processing industry was not horrific enough.

]]> http://www.masterminx.com/2009/06/snap_into_a_lawsuit.htm http://www.masterminx.com/2009/06/snap_into_a_lawsuit.htm Noted News Tue, 09 Jun 2009 21:37:46 -0700 Lesser Evil? Carradine family takes action on probe, photos - Yahoo! News

Unless you are a devout Christian, this makes no sense.

]]> http://www.masterminx.com/2009/06/lesser_evil.htm http://www.masterminx.com/2009/06/lesser_evil.htm Noted News Sun, 07 Jun 2009 15:29:30 -0700 A Walk in the Parks We visited the International Peace Gardens and Willow Pond Park today. The idea was for me to get out and take some photos because I haven't done that for a while.

Yeah, that didn't really work out.

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